About The Author

HARLAN ABRAHAMS is the writer and co-author of ON THE LIST: Fixing America’s Failing Organ Transplant System (RODALE 2009). In it he describes the growing global markets for human transplant organs while telling the stories of two men, one rich and one poor, who find themselves lost in America’s organ transplant labyrinth.

A Denver-based lawyer, author, and former professor of law, Abrahams earned his BS and JD from the University of Nebraska and his LLM from the Harvard Law School. He began teaching at age 24 and has taught at five law schools. At age 29, he was the youngest professor to be granted tenure at his university. As a law professor he has taught many courses including Constitutional Law, First Amendment Rights & Liberties, Administrative Law, Antitrust, Regulation of the Competitive Process, Jurisprudence, and Intellectual Property.

Abrahams settled in Denver in 1982, where he has been a partner at two major law firms, specializing in corporate and securities law, the structuring of business entities, and mergers and acquisitions. Since the 1990s, as a lecturer on public policy, he has focused on the relationships among economics, politics, and law, teaching several courses on Globalization and Sovereignty, U.S. Relations with Cuba, and the Regulatory Process.

Abrahams has published many scholarly articles and written several novels, one of which has been optioned for a movie to be shot on location in Havana. He has traveled to Cuba many times and is currently completing a book that is titled LITTLE BROTHER: Raúl Castro and the New Cuban Revolution. His coauthor on this project is Arturo Lopez-Levy, a former political analyst for the Government of Cuba. The book combines nonfiction narrative stories with multi-disciplined policy analysis.

Among Abrahams’ prized possessions is an e-mail he received from one of his editors at RODALE who said: “My compliments to you on your writing. The book reads beautifully, and I’m very glad to have worked on it with you!” He can be reached at harlanabrahams@aol.com.